sata controller question

[The Batt?sai]

i have 2 250 gig seagates on my motherboard's silicon image controller in raid 0. if i got a pci add in card for my new motherboard (which doesn't support raid) would my new windows installation recognize the 2 drives as one still with all the 400 gigs of stuff I have on them? (400 full out of 465 gigs total, drives are in raid 0). i want to do this so i can hurry up and sell my old motherboard to someone, or if i have to just burn the stuff off. please let me know thanks 🙂

 

[Kakumba]

Ummm, I really dont see how a card would nuke your RAID array. unless you plug your HDDs into it....

PS, what mobo you got?

 

[The Batt?sai]

i have a epox 8rda6+ pro with 6 sata ports. i'm upgrading to asrock dualsata2 board that has only 3 sata ports, and no raid at all. if i get a add in pci card that has the same chipset as my onboard silicon image on my epox board, would it recognize it without nuking it? so i can keep using all my files? 🙂

 

[stevty2889]

It would have to be the exact same chipset, with the exact same revision and firmware, then it should work.

 

[Kakumba]

heh, thats what you get for trying to answer a question when half asleep. yup, see that answer there ^